Labour slams government 'disrespect' for doctors but warns pay restoration won't happen overnight
The shadow health and social care secretary has condemned the government for treating doctors with 'disrespect', but warned that pay restoration would not happen overnight under a future Labour government. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - April 26, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
LMC demands ICB update on halting 'spiralling attrition' in GP workforce
Londonwide LMCs has written to ICBs across the capital to ask what they are doing to improve GP retention, a year after a report warned of 'spiralling attrition' in the workforce. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - April 26, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workforce Source Type: news
Young people and ethnic minorities have more GP visits before cancer diagnosis
Health experts have called for more general practice funding after a study found young people, ethnic minorities and those in deprived areas have more visits to GP practices before a cancer diagnosis. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - April 26, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Early diagnosis Source Type: news
Podcast: Rethinking access in general practice
Talking General Practice speaks to Jake Beech, a policy fellow from the Health Foundation, about a project he's involved with that is aiming to change the way we think about access in general practice. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - April 26, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Podcast Source Type: news
General practice lost 2,900 partners as GP workforce shrank during five-year contract
The GP workforce shrank by 3% and partners by a staggering 15% during the course of the five-year GP contract that began in 2019, GPonline analysis shows. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - April 25, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workforce Source Type: news
Leadsom claims there are '3,000 more GPs than in 2019'
Primary care minister Andrea Leadsom has claimed in parliament that there are '3,000 more GPs now than in 2019' - despite official data showing the qualified GP workforce has fallen by around 1,000. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - April 24, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workforce Source Type: news
Failure to retain GPs could cost £356m a year, BMA warns
Poor retention of GPs in the NHS workforce could cost taxpayers a staggering £356m a year, BMA analysis suggests. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - April 24, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workforce Source Type: news
GMC 'on wrong side of history' over climate protest GP suspension
The GMC risks finding itself on the 'wrong side of history' after a medical tribunal suspended a GP who received a custodial sentence for taking part in a series of climate change protests, doctors have warned. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - April 24, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: News Source Type: news
GP suspended for five months over climate change protests
A GP who took part in a series of Just Stop Oil climate change protests has been suspended from the medical register for five months. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - April 23, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: People News Source Type: news
Patients raise £5,500 to help 'heroic' GP keep practice contract
A GP said she was 'humbled' and 'overwhelmed' after patients raised £5,500 to support her bid to keep her practice after it was put out to tender. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - April 23, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
Quarter of GP practices face seniority pay clawback
Almost one in four GP practices in England face deductions from their funding in June as Primary Care Support England (PCSE) claws back overpayments on seniority pay. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - April 23, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Pay Source Type: news
NHS could face £5bn annual bill to replace thousands of doctors leaving early
The NHS could soon face a £5bn annual bill to replace thousands of doctors leaving before retirement age unless it takes urgent action to improve retention, the BMA has warned. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - April 22, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workforce Source Type: news
Three GP surgeries forced to close after 'threat' warning
Three surgeries were forced to cancel appointments and close their doors after police warned they had received ‘intelligence of a threat’ to Trent View Medical Practice in North Lincolnshire. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - April 22, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Practice News Source Type: news
RCGP to open consultation on physician associates in general practice
An RCGP consultation on the role of physician associates in general practice will open on 22 April, the college has confirmed. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - April 22, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Workforce Source Type: news
Patients left without medication as record drug shortages hit GP prescribing
Medicine shortages have forced more than nine in 10 GPs to prescribe second-choice drugs in the past year - with nearly a quarter reporting adverse effects for patients, GPonline polling shows. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - April 22, 2024 Category: Primary Care Tags: Prescribing Source Type: news
